Welcome to Office Mechanics, the first show of the season, where we go deeper
into the office 365 technologies and the people behind them. It's a brand new year and this is a brand ne demo-rich show
today hot on the heels of the recent Windows 10 announcements we're going to take a
first look at the touch optimized
Office for Windows 10 on a tablet
I'm joined by Ben Walters. Welcome.
Great to be here. We had a lot of great announcements around Windows 10 and the
preview news just been released but what's new
in the world Office? This was huge news we have about Office today.
We now have Office built from the ground up for touch with Windows tablets
so this means no more mouse and and no more keyboard if I'm on the go and get
access my Office no matter what I'm doing so what I'm gonna do today is take you
through an example
about using Office for for a company that is building a camera. I'm going to go through all the
apps and show you what that looks like.
Let's get started with Excel and here we have some demographic data
for where wanna sell my camera and what's happening there of course Excel is
one of these really fine
tuned, high-precision apps today but now it's really easy for me just
with touch to be able to do all the things in Excel I love to do. So being
able to
select and manage and filter to my data really simple all just with my finger
because when we working with Excel we really wanna start to take some that
data and format that we can present it to people
so over here my other worksheet I've got a set of data that has been given to us around
book sales for the week
We can see it's raw and there's no formatting to it but really easy for me to
hit the Insert tab
and convert this over to a table and beauty is with only one cell selected
Excel can go ahead and figure out the bounds of that data table, it's got table header is actually applied that
formatting for me so I don't need to do all those selection pieces myself
and of course once that's done it's very easy for me to go ahead and start to
reformat that
widen columns move things around as I need to course when the other big
powerful piece in Excel is this idea
charting data being able to put them into graphs and we used to do this with
a hover control at the bottom in the table which
you know was kind of hard to do with a finger. Right. So here I can go ahead and say you know
what
insert recommended charts I get this great live view of the data
rendered as it would be in that preview very simple for me go ahead and
select those charts
greats have your data analysis you researched and want to work on the spec
and word that's a great idea so here I have my camera specification up in
Reading Mode on Word
this is great is really easy for me to make my way through the documents see
feedback and comments that have come through as part of that I can also see
things like my comments on that document that have done so I can add review and
comment to that as I'm going as I'm making my way through
and just transition through and read that the way I would read a book
the other great thing around reading mode is this
idea insights this is one other big differentiators for Windows as well
to the ability for me to be able to select the word have a menu come up
and that mean you give me an insights menu and what this is doing is looking
at the document and looking at the context of what's happening in a
document and pulling back additional information for me from the web on that
we saw that Office Online Bing is actually pulling in that information and
surfacing that up right in the document that's right and really easy
for me get great results in there as well from that perspective
course what I want to be able to do as well as make edits my document
so I can very easily switch respect and it might and knows I have my document
here
picked up from where I was when I was reading really smooth really really
your response even the way I work with that so with the change in a in the UI
sometimes it can be difficult to find features that we've had in the
desktop you know where they are
and this is where the idea of Tell Me comes in so I can start to ask questions
that were around where its functionality is
so for example here gonna go actually asked for headers and footers
bring it back up I asked how I can insert a header or footer
and you notice as I'm typing this in its bringing up those commands not help
topics are not taking up to a website to read
actually exposing their functionality for me so I can simply putting header and
it takes me straight to the header and
header and footer at night so I can insert company my head is important
another great feature here is this idea of being able to lock the keyboard
so as I'm never getting through document I get this happening with the keyboard
pops up
instead what I can do is lock that out and then released at never get through that
document cleanly and easily without much hassle
that's really cool are seeing a lot of the features from the web services
things like
Insights things like Tell Me coming down to the in the rich clients are Office
for Windows tablet
I know you've also worked on a pitch deck a presentation in PowerPoint for this
camera so why don't you give us a look at that? that's right and one other big things around
happen we're looking to reviews its ability to really take power
the pain as one the big differentiator is when we look at it Office for Windows
tablet is the idea that we have stylus is that we can use to do we'll find grain
control and review on that
So here you can see I have my deck I'm currently in presenter mode
and I can make my way through the slides really nice me transitions great
animations as part of that
that because I have my pen I can also start to annotate some of this as well
you can see here I have a slide I've got a couple
a couple bubbles on their highlighting some things but I really want that to
match
so what I can do is I can actually take my pen and start to put in annotations
onto that slide to let me know what I need to do
so as I go back and make my edits I know exactly what that's done there
and i cant say across things out have a name I can also use this one presenting
if I wanted to to highlight different areas at the deck
answer if I wanted to draw attention over to certain things that go ahead and
do that as well
right so with my annotations in place
I can pop out of my presentation and get the option to keep those annotations as
well so I know exactly where those
marks were made and what they look like one the other things we've got
it is idea that I
you know want to try and copy n paste my formatting I was one of the things we
noted down
want to do it so historically this is something they did take a mouse and
keyboard and the copy formatting
function to do that been now and go ahead and do this with touch so by
selecting the object I want to copy
we get this little ellipsis and it shows me a submenu these are all contextual show up
based on what I have selected in this menu
and alters as it needs to so I go ahead and pick copy formatting
select my new object and paste that over there
and then we go I've now got consistent formatting across my deck so again
really powerful really easy to use these touch based applications
really great so we see a lot of the on the web services come in the support that
we see the power of the pen
on on Windows 10 especially the real differentiator
in terms of some of the things that you can do with that device in specific
great terms of functionality have across all your documents or spreadsheets the
things to plan out
your camera that you're building the specification in Word the PowerPoint file
the great thing is really consistent across all the different tablet form
factor your using, so whether you use in iOS or Android on those tablets
wanna make sure you can be able to change from one platform to the other
very easily just Office is wherever you are in this the device that you have on
your right that's right is really important and we say in the camera world
the best camera you've got is the one in your pocket now the best device I have
is one that I got with me
that's really great to see. thanks for joining us today Ben. Of course for all the news go
to the Office Blog and on Wednesdays
Office Mechanics thanks for watching and goodbye for now